Highlighting in FoodChain-Lab

Tasks

• Open the following workflow: https://github.com/SiLeBAT/BfROpenLa….
• Change the color of Outbreak stations in the Tracing View from red to turquoise.
• Add the label “node” to each station.

Step 1

• Import the Small Example Workflow from https://github.com/SiLeBAT/BfROpenLa….
• Open the Tracing View by double-clicking on it.

Step 2

• Here you can see a small delivery graph with three outbreak locations (red stations) in the lower part.

Step 3

• Let’s now change the color of the outbreak stations.
• Right click in the graph and select Station Highlighting > Edit.

Step 4

• A dialog with all defined highlighting conditions will pop up.
• Double click on the Outbreak condition to edit it.

Step 5

• A new dialog for editing the outbreak condition will pop up.
• In this dialog you can also change what stations the highlighting should be applied to.
• Currently it is applied on all station with “Weight” > 0. You can add other expressions by pressing the Add button on the right. These expressions can be combined via “And” or “Or”.
• To edit the color click red square next to Color.

Step 6

• In the color chooser dialog select turquoise and press OK.

Step 7

• The square next to Color should be turquoise now.
• Press OK.

Step 8

• In the dialog showing all highlighting conditions press OK to apply your changes.

Step 9

• The outbreak stations in the delivery graph should now be turquoise.

Step 10

• Now we want to add labels to all stations in the graph.
• Right click in the graph and select Station Highlighting > Edit.

Step 11

• We add the labeling as a new highlight condition.
• Press Add to add a new condition.

Step 12

• Add dialog will show up where you can configure the desired highlight condition.

Step 13

• Since we want to use labels for all stations, select the Type “Apply To All”.

Step 14

• Set the Name to “Labeling” (just for documentation).
• Uncheck Use Color, since we just want to create labels without coloring.
• Set the Label to “node”, since that is the column with station names.
• Press OK to create the highlight condition.

Step 15

• In the dialog with all highlight conditions you should now see a new condition “Labeling”.
• Press OK to apply the changes.

Step 16

• In the delivery graph there is now a label next to each station.

Step 17

• FoodChain-Lab also allows to color or label deliveries the same way.
• To open the dialog for editing delivery highlight conditions right click in the graph, select Delivery Highlighting > Edit and proceed in the same way as you have just done with the stations.